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Uphill Racer : No need to laugh (D,2006)***°
I recognise Uphill Racer as one of those new intensively produced albums, with a wide range of sound volume, and full detailed arrangements in spatial layers, which often closely interact in sound as well as are chosen cleverly for their good combinations of sound colour. On “The Fat Grin of the enemy” it is as if the sound of Fender Rhodes is taken as a standard for the colours of musical space. Elsewhere, warm echoed vocals, and backing vocal arrangements also often lie nice and closely to other sound arrangements, like guitars and keyboard sounds, electric and acoustic piano, bits of mellotron, acoustic guitars, many on tape recorded sounds and fragments, delays, several well chosen tempo changes in the arrangements, bundles of acoustic sound percussion ideas, with smoothly pop-rocking rhythms, or hypermodern electronic and studio mixed percussion, and give a rounded dreamy effect with an equally degree of clarity. The perfectly and cleverly produced music speaks much for itself.
